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Sabor Russell Foundation at a glance

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Sabor Russell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$114kPhilanthropy$39kHealth$21kAnimals$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kEducation$9kCommunity Improvement$9kCrime & Legal$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$595k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S AIDS ART PROGRAMME$22,500
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,000
MANCOS UNITED$2,500
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$1,000
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%STANFORD LAW SCHOOL: $2k → 8%CHILDREN'S AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $30k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $8k → 10%THE RAPE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $4k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $4k → 14%PREVENTED: $8k → 11%MANCOS UNITED: $3k → 15%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%CHILDREN'S AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $24k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $3k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $3k → 14%PREVENTED: $4k → 11%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%STANFORD LAW SCHOOL: $1k → 8%CHILDREN'S AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $23k → 8%PERFORMING ARTS WORKSHOP INC: $3k → 10%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILD MIND INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $3k → 14%NCADA ST LOUIS AREA INC: $3k → 11%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%CHILDREN'S AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $20k → 8%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK: $3k → 10%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $15k → 8%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 6 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against -60% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$162k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
-60%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    CHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME
    5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +26% · 31% of their budget
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +87%
  • P
    PREVENTED
    2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • NS
    NCADA ST LOUIS AREA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • PA
    Performing Arts Workshop Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -60%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
9
California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Partnership With Children Inc

Partnership with children's mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of children in new york city so they can succeed in school, society, and life.

—
12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Childrens Aids Art Programme. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $111,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNIT…PREVENTED: $12,000 · HealthPREVENTEDCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $8,650 · HealthCHILD MIND…WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 · AnimalsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $11,750 · InternationalTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 · EducationCITY OF HOPE: $3,000 · OtherNCADA ST LOUIS AREA INC: $3,000 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherMancos United: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$114,000Philanthropy$38,500Health$20,650Animals$15,000International$11,750Education$9,000Other$7,000Community Improvement$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $111,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENTED: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $11,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $8,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMancos United: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sabor Russell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sabor Russell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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